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...least until now. Temporary Shelter presents 20 tales, a number of which have previously appeared in publications ranging from the highbrow (Antaeus, Granta) to the mass market (Redbook, Mademoiselle). The quality is uneven, the good mixed with occasional bits of fluff. No single story in this collection seems automatically destined for anthologies. Yet the book as a whole is a good deal more powerful and absorbing than any of its individual parts...
...spite of the fact that there was not a single bath in the place ("It was enough that it was built by Christopher Wren"), he enjoyed himself thoroughly. He went on to Cambridge and to the fulfillment of his first literary ambition: the editorship of the undergraduate Granta...
Already singled out by Punch while he was editing the Cambridge Granta, young Milne had long since displayed his talents in such schoolboy light verse...
Medals for weight-putting and other feats of strength were won by Student Locker-Lampson at Eton and Cambridge; in 1898 he won the Prince Consort's Prize for German; in 1900 edited the Cambridge undergraduate Granta. Amateur theatricals were still his passion after he became a barrister and later Lieutenant-Commander...
...quality the Granta does possess which is foreign to its American proto-types, and that is the ability to ridicule without becoming bitter. Concerning its immediate victim, these United States, the magazine is gently cynical; but it never becomes heated and it seems always to remember that its "message" should remain subordinate to its primary function--humor...